Work
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I know no error more consuming to an estate than that of stocking farms with men almost exclusively. I consider a woman who brings a child every two years as more profitable than the best man of the farm. What she produces is an addition to the capital, while his labors disappear in mere consumption.
—Thomas Jefferson
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To understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation
The half has never been told: slavery and the making of American capitalism
‘To remake the world’: slavery, racial capitalism, & justice
Capitalism and racism: conjoined twins
Geographies of racial capitalism
Tipping is a legacy of slavery
How racism tainted labor/union solidarity
How unions promote racial solidarity